Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1887-05-12

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Tho Baltimoro SSR oe "Wednesday says
that MA Lulio Riteoe We shoe end instantly |
killed about h4lfpaoe seven O'Clock Tuesday |
morning By her husbapd, VIM. II. Ritter,
at The bric9yafdD Of 9. w. Ritter, situated on
aumpafpy's cr0k, IN estuary Of Bear creek,
In the Twelfth district Of Baltimore county,
fourteen miles nom the city. Mira Ritter,
the victim, was In her twenty.third year
She was the daughter Of Ara Kate LouckA
No 80 West Walnut street. Lancaster, Pa,
and was married to VIM. II. Ritter, July 2
1885, The husband who 10 % years old, II
Gilmore street, who conducts the mill wright
business ct No 70s South Caroline street /
Young Ritter superintends brickyards on /
Humphreys creek for his father.
Policemen Thau and Gaff found Ritter ly-
ing on the ground meaning and crying aloud.
They arrested and handcufied him Behind
the countsr, In . newly built frame shed,
where Ritter conducted . grocery store the
body Of his desd wife lay in . pool Of blood.
Justice John hevern, with O6cers Miller
and Grace and Dr. A. q. Warner, arrived
soon after, and the body Of the woman was
stretched on some boards placed on nail kegA
The features were hid BY blood and stains Of
powder which, being washed on by DR.. War.
mel, revealed rather pretty iscA around which
clustersof raven ringlets lay in clotted meshea
DR.. Warner made q post mortem examination
at the inquest. He testified that death
resulted instantaneously from . gunshot
wound which shattered the right side OF the
lower jawbone, breaking the upper jAwbone
and the contents lodging in the brain. All the
muscles on the right side Of the neck were
severed. The wound was produced by the
| contents of . No. 10 preaching loading gun,
Il ~ -
| Of powder and " ounce. of No 4 .hot
The testimony At the inouest showed tbs,
| the couple had been yerv affection ats 10.
| wards each other. but that iust before the
shooting thew had bai a contest abou, the
possession OF the gun that did the fatal
work, At that time he had.s.id 4: .D-u YOU,
III shoot you.n
The jury rendered . verdict "that Mira
Lille Ritter came to her death from q gun.
shot wound In the face, inflicted by the hands
OF William H. Ritter" Justice Hevern there
upon committed Ritter to the Towsontown
Jail to await tho action of the Baltimore
county grand Jury, He was locked up in the
Canton station house, and will be taken to
Jail this morn ing by Constable Grace.
The surroundings st the inquest were OF q
| striking nature Cpop q few bare plauks Law
the body of the dead woman, Around her
In group were the twelve Jurors, represent
ing the farmer element of Pstapsco Neck,
! all with barred heads, and looking with sym.
pathy upon the bloody CORPSE before them.
| About ten yards swsy, sitting on 4 stump,
with manscles on his wrists, was the Young
husband, expressing great interes, as to what
the finding Of tho Jury would he. A group
| of hslf-scsred colored people were gathered
some distance sway, anu as they were called
to swear to the truth, the whole truth and
nothing but the TRUTH their hands trembled
/ 20 violently that Justice Heyern had to hold
tightly to the Testament to keep 1t from fall.
| ing. High above all were tall pine trees with
! outstretched branches To the front Law the
| placid waters of the creek, with the satl of q
| lone fishermsn's boat fisppinR in the breeze
| the noise OF which was Joined by tho merry
| laughter of some children, who in their inno.
| csnce knew not the weight OF sorrow that
| had fallen Upon the rustic surrounding where
| they lived. The concluding phase was the
I husband kissing the child. face Of his wife
before following the officers TO the carriage
that bore him away.
MI. Ritter said to the San reporter 81
got up early this morning and went to the
shanty and woke up Lee aud Cole We went
to the store and oil drank something. Soon
After my wife came from our house, which
| you see 10 but few yards away. She brought
my breech.loading gun with her. felt salts.
ned that 1t was not loaded, - l always take
out the cartridges at night, but always
sleep with . loaded pistol under my pillow.
MY vile has been In the habit OF aiming the
pistol at me, saying she would shoot me,
which, OF course, was In play. When she
came IN the store with the gun she said she
would shoot me, and, aiming 1t at me, pulled
the trigger, but 1t did not go on. got 1t
rom her ana oid then would shoot her. l
Pulied the Iigger' IL went OH. saw her
iail' and know no more. am certain my
wiie must nave loaded the gun at the house
before she came 10 the STORE. ny vile has
hved mere since March ~, before which We
Msoe our nome at l9-o East PRESTON street.
balunore' The remains OF Mrs. Ritter
| were Aken LII cnaIge py ner HUSBANDS
perents' VINO passed nim on NORM Poins
road when en- their way TO the place.
WHO THE DEAD WOMAN WAS.
The dead woman was daughter OF Mrs
Loucks, wife OF John d. Loucks, the well
known messenger OF councils, BY former
husband and her maiden name was Lille
Dale She made her home with her ster-
father when IN this city aud was employed In
the weave room OF No cotton mill. Five
or six years age she went to Harrisburg,